NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX Mobile GPU Preview

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NVIDIA has just announced the GeForce Go 7950 GTX as their new flagship mobile gaming graphics solution and Legit Reviews is here to bring you the low down on what the changes are.

Dual Core Battle : Intel Wolfdale vs AMD Antares

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Intel plans to counter 65nm AMD "Antares" dual core processor with their 45nm "Wolfdale" dual core processor based on Penryn core architecture in Q3 '07. Wolfdale will contain 6MB of shared L2 cache compared to 512KB dedicated L2 per core (1MB total) and 2MB shared L3 on the Antares.

AMD Unveils Barcelona Quad-Core Details

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AMD takes the wraps off its next-generation quad-core microarchitecture, code-named Barcelona. Rather than a complete overhaul, Barcelona integrates highly tweaked enhancements to the current Opteron architecture.

ATi AMD Chipset Roadmap

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ChileHardware has gotten some exclusive slides on the ATi/AMD Chipset Roadmap. It seems that RD790 and SB700 is scheduled for second half of 2007. RX790 and IGP solutions RS790 and RS740 are pin to pin compatible with RS690, RX690 and RS690C chipsets.

GeForce 7900 GTO to GeForce 7900 GTX Bios Mod

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New, more or less unofficial GeForce 7900 GTO graphics cards from Nvidia have started to pop up in various online retail stores, as we noticed last Friday. These cards have the same cooler and specifications as the GeForce 7900 GTX, but their memory is clocked at 660MHz (1.32GHz effective) instead of 800MHz, and they're selling for around $250 instead of $400+.

Howto buy a cheap notebook

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Remember last year when a sale featuring laptops priced at $500 caused a stampede in one store. What a difference a year makes! Laptop prices have been steadily dropping, falling below those stampede prices in some cases. As productions costs come down and the marketplace is flooded with all makes of laptops, you can expect laptop prices to drop even further.

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Extended Warranties

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Extended Service Plans Lack Benefit: In Most Cases, Extended Product Service Plans Don't Benefit Consumers.

Documents Leak NVIDIA's Quantum Physics Engine

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With the release of the G80, NVIDIA will also release a new engine dubbed Quantum physics engine. Quantum Effects Technology is similar (at least in spirit) to NVIDIA's PureVideo Technology -- a dedicated layer on the GPU for physics calculations. A few documents alluding to this new engine appeared on public FTP mirrors late last week.

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1333MHz Bearlake is soon to be ready

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Without much break since Intel 965 chipset was launched a few months ago, manufacturers now have to busy working on the next-generation Bearlake chipset.

NVIDIA ''G80'' Retail Details Unveiled

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DailyTech's hands-on with the GeForce 8800 series continues with more information about the GPU and the retail boards. The new NVIDIA graphics architecture will be fully compatible with Microsoft?s upcoming DirectX 10 API with support for shader model 4.0, and represents the company's 8th generation GPU in the GeForce family.

CPUs and GPUs for '07: A Peak Into the Future

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NVIDIA G80. ATI R600. AMD K8L. Intel Yorkfield. All of these codenames are attached to upcoming products that will be hitting shelves shortly. In this article Brandon goes over the roadmap for both CPUs and GPUs from AMD, ATI, Intel, and NVIDIA. Whether you plan on upgrading soon, or you're waiting until next year, this is one article you won't want to miss!

Quad Core Battle : Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair

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Yorkfield Extreme Edition based on the 45nm Penry core architecture will meet heads-on with AMD Altair based on the 65nm K8L core in Q3 2007. Both are quad core offerings but AMD touted theirs to be a native quad-core with dedicated 512KB L2 cache for each core and an additional 2MB L3 cache for the 4 cores to share.

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NForce 680I SLI to Come

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Talk about fast to the trigger, we have heard that the DFI C55 + MPC55 solution will be assembled this weekend, and that the market name for the C55 + MCP55 is NF680I SLI.

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